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I come to, and find myself in darkness. I stay there for a long time. I open my eyes to find no change in the scenery. I try to move my arms and hear the rattle of chains and feel a slight warm embrace on my wrist. I move my fingers to come in contact with cold metal. I lift my head back and inhale deeply, I can't smell anything.

I find myself gently swaying with my feet not touching the ground. I try to lift myself up from my wrist but I barely ascend a few inches before I fall back down, straining to raise myself up again. I struggle weakly for a time, glaring into the darkness that surrounds me.

Suddenly after a few moments the room gets cold, what little air I had leaves me, and I feel as if I'm being hunted. I feel a ghost of a presence behind me and my hair is lifted back over my neck and I hear someone inhale deeply while pressing their face into the back of my neck.

"Hello beautiful, you weren't up to long without me where you?" I hold my breath and say nothing, holding perfectly still. "Come on, talk to me. I've been dying to hear that pretty voice again."

"Piss off." I growled with as much conviction as I could muster.

"Such a lady, someone needs to teach you how to talk to a man." I felt cold breath on the nape of my neck an before I could react I felt the needles eagerly drive themselves into my flesh. I couldn't breath, the feeling of weightlessness is back, with it grew a warm pool in the pit of my stomach. I try weakly to shrug him off. He growled threateningly in my ear while possessively gripping my shoulder. I lost all fight and faded into oblivion again.

I heard the steady dripping of water in a pan. The metallic sound drawing me forward out of my dream like state. I opened my eyes in a flash, staring up at a white ceiling. What am I doing here? I look around the furnished room in a daze. I see a single window, a basic dresser, and a TV on a stand across the room. I look to my right and see a door half a jar, with another right behind it leading to the bathroom, as I see the toilet from the doorway. I closed my eyes and take a breath to steady myself.

If only felt like moments, but I can tell from the weighed down feel of my body I had been asleep for a while.I slowly begin to wake up and come back to awareness, I slowly open my eyes and David is there.

He stands there in a plain white t-shirt and black jeans. His sly grin cut across his face revealing his fangs. I feel butterflies in my chest, all I could think about was him. He sat down next to me, brushing my cheek gently. I feel a growl grow in my chest but he silences me by brushing the nape of my neck. I cringe internally trying to figure out what I was thinking.

"There is something I have to tell you Princess... do you know anything about the supernatural world?" I look up at him and shake my head afraid to speak, as I might growl at him.

Human beings don't growl.

He grinned at me once more. "Well I'm what one would call a vampire.."

"Like in Twilight?" I chip in easily. Proud of myself for being able to add to the conversation.

"..yeah. Just like that. Except I don't shine like a b-dazzled shit-head." I snicker at that. He's so funny.

"There is this thing called mates.. and you're mine." My anger suddenly grows and I lung at him. I come short of his face as I feel myself held back by my wrist. I glare at him not bothering to see what's stopping me. He blinks smiling down at me easily. "I see you're feeling the bond. Its a bit different for humans like you. The more time you spend with your mate the more attributes of that species your body will integrate within you so you may be able to be with me in my world. Aggression is pretty common. You're physiological needs begin to change. You'll want more food high in iron and that will help you produce more blood, you may become nocturnal,you may even feel your need to assert your dominance. It's very common in vampires. It's fine sweet heart, I'm not that kind of guy." I look at him evenly.

"You grabbed me by my neck." He takes a deep breath.

"Because you're human, you don't feel the mate bond the same way I do. I felt I just had to get you to understand. The best way for a vampire's mate to do that, instantly anyway, is to be bitten. After three bites you feel the mate bond more obviously than if I was to spend weeks or months with you." He took my face in his hand eagerly. "Princess, I know how you were living. I couldn't take it anymore. In a fucking warehouse? No, I couldn't stand it anymore. I need you here with me. I'll take care of you an protect you forever."

"Why would you have to protect me? An don't talk about my loft, it was pretty nice if I do say so myself."

"You have a bit of a reputation in the city. I can tell you I heard rumors of others planning to use you for their own motives." He says it so easily I believe him. I look back and see my hands handcuffed to the bed. For the first time I'm comfortable in giving him an annoyed growl.

It must be a vampire thing to growl. So if I'm his mate I must have run into him years ago. Maybe the fire was just some weird dream.

"Sorry love, you're a bit strong and I didn't want you getting away from me." Before I could blink the handcuffs were off. I rubbed my wrist carefully,wanting to look anywhere but at him.

"So you mean to tell me, I'm living some cheesy vampire book. An you will just whisk me away in the end and we will live happily ever after, and before all that we have to go through some weird tragedy that will bring us together and solidify our bond."

"I'll make it as uncheesy as possible." He smiles down at me and kisses me. I blink back surprise and attempt to push him off. He growls and holds my face in an iron grip and continues about his business. I nervously kiss him back the best I can.

Wow so this is how my first kiss goes.

David grins and pulls back. "Being mates I can get short clips of your thoughts. I'm glad I get to be your first and your last." He lays back pulling me with him.

"But first, something I have to tell you. Us being mates makes it hard to be around you. You're still human and your blood is.. irresistible to me. I haven't fed from you since last night. It would kill me, again, if maybe I couldn't get one bite right about now.." He pulls my neck to his mouth and licks my neck like candy.

Creep. As he cradles me to him I feel my heart race and a thought start to form, before I can identify it he sinks his teeth into me. I let go of everything I know and let him. I grip his hand gently as all I am swept away.

I loose track of time. When he pulls back to look at me I can't focus on anything. My eyes flutter around the room, nothing holding my attention. He gently lifts me into his arms and steps into the bathroom. I stay lifeless in his arms as he looks at me lovingly.

I open my eyes a moment later and we're in the shower. Him with clothes and me probably without them, but I don't stay awake long enough to find out.

Another moment and I'm back in bed while he flicks through channels. I push myself up on my arms, straining. He brushed his fingers across my back and silently offered me a warm plate of food. I attacked it, not bothering to see what it is. I don't even notice that he was gone when he comes back with another plate and hands it to me silently. I snatch it away from him and eat it. Once I'm finished, he climbs back into bed. I lay my head on his chest and fall back asleep, not bothering to notice anything else.

I wake up again in the dead of night. I hear a rustling across the room. I turn on the light and David stands growling at me. His eyes dark and menacing. I sit up in bed clutching the sheets to my chest. "David? Are you ok?" He growls at me once more and stalks forward. I see his hard naked chest rise and fall. He stands on the other side of the bed, in a blink he is on the bed looming over me. "You're scaring me."

"Not for long." He rushes me, but somehow I see it coming before he does it. I easily redirect him to fly over my head and onto the floor. I move to climb off the bed but he pulls me by my ankles back to him. I cry out and turn to push him off me, only to have him hold my arm down. I move into the fetal position, trying to hide from him.

He pries my head from my chest and bites down on my neck. I stop fighting the moment his teeth touch my skin. I hold him to me as he takes what blood I have to spare. I pass out before he is even finished.

I wake up, eat, then go back to sleep. I don't remember showering or speaking to David. I don't recall much of anything other than he made me some great dinner the other night but being to tired to do anything other than that. This process continues for what seems like days to me. David seems to be in a good mood the whole time. Playfully pinching me while I'm awake, often there in the room when I wake up.

I stretch lazily in bed, noticing the crow's nest for hair I have in the mirror but not really caring. I rub my acing neck gently when I hear the door open. David walks in, and he isn't in the best of moods.

The bit of time I've been with him I've gotten used to him rushing around in a blur. He tugs a suitcase from the closet and throws it on the bed not bothering to look at me, his fangs out as he hisses under his breath. "We're leaving now. Get dressed." I look at him curiously as I swing my legs over the bed. I'm hit in the face with a pile of clothes as he rushes out the room again. I rise and walk weakly to the bathroom, doing my daily routine at my own pace. As I rinse my mouth of toothpaste, looking in the mirror I see him snarling behind me.

He quickly picks me up and places me back on the bed. "Just stay here, I'll be back in a moment. Don't move." He rushes out again and I sit there on the bed. I know something is up with me but I can't place my finger on it. I'm not compliant at all. I should be trying to get the Hell out my own way.

As I sit there I hear a faint creak, like someone drawing a rock over glass. I look up past the window and I see Draco on the fire escape. I stand immediately and fall, sliding down the bed. He stands there wagging his tail cocking his head back and forth. Again he paws the window gently.

I sit there staring at him while he paws the window. This fucking dog doesn't stop. I find it within myself to stand and go to open the window. On shaking legs I lift the window as quietly as possible. He immediately goes to sniffing me all over while I rub his face and ears. As he lifts his nose to my neck he growls and tugs on my shirt.

Before he can pull me through the window David is there and flings me across the room onto the bed. I hit my head on the headboard hard. When I shake off the pulsating in my ears I open my eyes to see Draco snapping at David's neck. I hear a commotion outside the room and five large men rush into the room. Their eyes glowing and their teeth elongated and sharp.

Before I know it David is at my side biting my neck. I loose track of time as I grasp his shirt weakly before he is pried off of me. One of the large men comes over and throws me over his shoulder and runs out the room with Draco on his heels. I close my eyes as I feel sick from being tossed around as he rushes out the apartment and down the stairs. Taking almost all the stairs with every step.

I come to wrapped in a blanket, the sun shining on my face. I look over and Draco has his head on top of the thick blanket. When he sees me looking at him he moves over and licks my face. I let him as I feel something behind me rise and fall. I turn my head to see the man from earlier holding me securely to his chest.

I feel alarmed but I can't muster the energy to react. I glance out the window and see my favorite food cart and the man who offered to take me in. Our eyes connect as the car speeds past him and what was my home for the better part of my life. Draco whines and licks my face again. I close my eyes and allow myself to pass out. I come to as I'm being gently swayed back and forth. The sun is blinding me, but as I come into the shade I see my surroundings.

The same man from before is holding me and Draco is at his side looking up at me. I lean my head against his chest as I look at the large manor we are walking towards. It's a large grand house with slate marble covering the outside and four large bay windows. Two side by side on the second floor and the spaciously separated on the first. There are overly large bright plants that are beside a stone walk way leading to the large metal doors that is the entrance to the building.

Inside I see people walking around, one the first floor someone behind a large desk is looking at us expectantly as we walk in. More so me than anyone else. Someone rushes up to us with a stretcher and I'm placed gently on it. People in doctor's uniform obscure my sight as they poke and prod me.

I don't react much and I'm soon in a hospital gown. I can't hear much of what they're saying as I begin to feel held in place. I feel my skin pricked as they insert an IV line. The room starts to spin and it's all I can do to turn my head and vomit partially onto the floor and my bed. Quickly they place me in another bed while someone wipes the filth off the floor. A doctor quickly walks into my fading field of vision.

"Hello young lady, I'm Dr. Fields. How are you feeling today?" I don't answer and he continues. "It seems you lost a lot of blood. Has anything happened to you recently?" I shake my head.

No way will they believe me if I tell them about David.

He crosses his arms and gives me a stern look. "Miss I need your complete honesty, whatever you tell me I'll believe you. You can either tell me what happened or I will tell you what happened." I look at him wearily. I see the door to the room open and close and Draco hops onto the bed and lays over my legs. He doesn't look at me at he makes eye contact with Dr. Creepazoid.

The good doctor he is looks back over at me and turns my head slightly as he tells me he is going to do so. My neck stiffens in pain and he glances at me for one moment then shakes his head. "Miss did you ingest any blood?" I look at him slightly alarmed and shake my head. He shines a light in my eye and he seems to be extremely relieved.

As he is about to say something else the door opens once more. A very large, too large actually, male with even bronze skin and slightly grown out hair enters the room. He has deep grey eyes that take up all excess light in the room. He turns and makes eye contact with me. I feel a familiar fire burn in my chest, my pulse quickens, and for the first time all day I can smell the room and feel how sore my body is.

I raise myself in the bed slightly and hold his gaze. If he is alarmed or surprised at me staring at him he doesn't show it. We seem to finally take a breath at the same time and I smell the most striking scent ever. It smells like warmth and very male. It makes me think about laying on the beach on the hottest summer day but the heat not bothering me. I growl low in my chest as I feel the fire spread through my veins. My skin is too hot to wear but I ignore it as I swing my legs out of bed ignoring Draco. I stand still growling low in my chest and slink towards him, my head held high and my stature immaculate.

I watch the dazed look in his eyes turn to alarm and maybe a bit of anger and he accepts my challenge by walking towards me as well. I feel pleased as I finally reach him. I feel the heat coming off his skin, and somehow it cools the heat storm in my chest.

I lean forward while looking in his eyes and breath in his being. I want him. I hear my fire talking to me, after all these years of keeping it silent it easily slides through all my carefully placed barriers and takes over. As I shift my head to get a better look at the rest of him. As he looks down his eyes flick over to my neck and his posture turns hostile.

I feel his anger lash out and me and it stuns me. Out of reflex I growl and shove him away, the fire taking over again.

He doesn't seem to notice as he turns and storms out of the room in a cold calculated manor. All the warmth leaves the room and my body as the door closes and his scent disappears. I stand there for a brief moment and slowly feel myself sinking to the cold hospital floor. Draco is there as someone lifts me before I fall and puts me back in the bed. I feel myself fading into sleep. I close my eyes, although desperate to keep them open I feel myself fading into unconsciousness. Just as I'm about to disappear and be lost to the darkness around me I catch a quick comment.

"Well, that was something."

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Hey everyone !! Sorry I disappeared there for a while. I'll try to keep this up on a decent bases. Tell me what you did and didn't like. I love constructive criticism, and as always I hope you enjoyed the story.

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I have posted an edited chapter, please go to the right hand corner of the screen and click the 3 dots and scroll up back to the top of the list to read the edited chapter. If you have read this chapter already I am posting a separate chapter with the major changes in a previous chapter so no one has to go back and read the whole chapter over.

It will mainly be scenery changes or dialog. I'll be editing frequently so anyone can keep up with the story.

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